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From: G.Joly@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Gordon Joly)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Turing Test: opinions on an idea
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Date: 15 May 91 15:21:17 GMT
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steven furber writes:
 > [...]
 > used?  Although we have not encountered extraterrestrias, there is very 
 > little reason (from what I have read and can `see') to believe that 
 > non-humans communicate with the same system we use.  If we find an 
 > species that does not communicate in the same way that we do and 
 > communicate in a language we know, is that species necessarily 
 > unintelligent?
 > 
 > Like I said, my knowledge of the Turing test is limited

The topic of the strangeness of extraterrestrias "thought" is covered
in "The Mote in God's" - authored Larry Nevin and somebody else (not
sure of the names here at all).

Trying to imagine a Turing Test for ET is the business of Carl Sagan.

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